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i am having a problem with a background color that i want to use.
the color is: #595959
i am using this as the bg color for both the swf file as well as the html that it is located in.
it looks fine on my mac... but when my friend looks at it on his pc, the bgcolors are slightly off.
maybe its a browser issue? i know he was using IE to look at it.
if anyone has heard of this problem or has any fixes i would love to know!
thanks!
It could either be his screen, or, if all you did was change the BG color in the properties panel, I reccomend making a new layer called "BG" or "Background", creating a square or something the size of your stage, and then publish and test it.
It's not a browser issue, it's a Mac vs PC color scheme setting issue. They are notoriously not the same. The only way to get them as close as possible is to use Web Safe color numbers.
What he said...
Yes, Macs have a much wider color range, but they still continue to suck...
~Sportzguy933
Another thing to look for is fade settings. A transparency setting of 65% will look like 65% on a PC, but will appear like about 95% on a Mac. Never found a fix for that. ;)
i had similar problem before and it was because at home i don't have flat monitor and at work it is flat. the monitor is a problem sometimes.
hmmmm
it seems i may just have to change the color,
that sucks
Why, who's going to see it on a Mac and a PC at the same time to compare it? In my experience, people will never notice.
the problem was not that the color was a little off
the problem is that the bg color of the swf and the bg color of the html are slightly different from each other.
i think my solution will be to tile the background with tiny jpg's of the color.
the BG jpg will be produced in flash, so it should match the swf's BG color, no matter what computer it is viewed on.
i did this in this link:
http://www.jbsdesign.com/index1.html
this site is a work in progress, so you won't really be able to look around in the site to much.
I see two different colors of grey there. I got a PC with dual 17" Viewsonic LCD's.
I think you really need to use websafe colors to make that work.
damn
why do you think my jpg solution didn't work?
Here's another option. Publish your movie from the html tab in publish settings. Set the Dimesions dropdown to Percent, 100%. then down lower, set the Scale dropdown to No Scale and publish the html. Now, open the html to edit the source, and add this at the bottom of the head tag;
<style type="text/css">
html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
</style>
</HEAD>
Your movie will show at the size you made it in the center of the screen and the edges of the background color you set in flash will go all the way to the edge of the browser. You won't need a bg image tile or color at all.
ok, i'll give that a try
Now you got me thinking, check out mine on a Mac. I bet it's doing the same thing, cause I don't use a websafe color.
http://www.flashbax.com/slide_show.htm
looks ok on my mac
i like your buttons!
ok
i tried that out... can you check it out here:
http://www.jbsdesign.com/ui_main.html
Yup, that got it.
SWEET!
thank you so much!
You got one more thing to do. Remove the scrollbar on the right by changing your top body tag to this;
<BODY bgcolor="#595959" scroll= "no">
ok
thanks again!
the scroll= "no"
didn't do anything... i don't think.
there is still a scroll bar
It's gone in IE for Windows.
ya it works...
oops